Senior Network Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 325 335
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 25 72 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.35% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.38% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 51 57
10th Percentile £366 £425 £425
25th Percentile £414 £506 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £491 £522 £538
90th Percentile £505 £600 £580
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -7.32% +5.02% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.75 £71.75 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £73.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +11.36% -
75th Percentile £76.25 £76.12 £71.50
90th Percentile - £76.64 £74.79
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +11.36% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,956 19,149 21,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.41% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,594 11,598 14,941
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,392 1,083
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.95
Median hourly rate £26.28 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.30% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% -16.67% +87.50%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +10 10 £475 -7.32% 3
North West 0 7 £483 -6.08% 2
Scotland +8 5 £406 -26.14% 8
Wales - 5 £450 -
East of England +25 3 - - 3
Yorkshire - 3 £400 - 1
West Midlands +13 1 £525 - 3
Midlands +12 1 £525 -4.55% 3
South East -2 1 - - 7
Senior Network Engineer
UK

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Senior Network Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (84.00%) Cisco
2 18 (72.00%) Firewall
3 12 (48.00%) WAN
3 12 (48.00%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (48.00%) OSPF
3 12 (48.00%) BGP
4 11 (44.00%) CCNP
4 11 (44.00%) VPN
5 10 (40.00%) Wireless
5 10 (40.00%) Data Centre
6 9 (36.00%) Palo Alto
6 9 (36.00%) Network Security
7 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
7 8 (32.00%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
8 7 (28.00%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (28.00%) SD-WAN
8 7 (28.00%) Migration
8 7 (28.00%) LAN
8 7 (28.00%) EIGRP
9 6 (24.00%) CCIE
9 6 (24.00%) IPsec
9 6 (24.00%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (24.00%) Azure
10 5 (20.00%) Aruba
10 5 (20.00%) Network Design
11 4 (16.00%) DWDM
11 4 (16.00%) MPLS
11 4 (16.00%) Juniper
11 4 (16.00%) DNS

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Akamai
4 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 18 (72.00%) Firewall
2 12 (48.00%) BGP
2 12 (48.00%) OSPF
2 12 (48.00%) WAN
3 11 (44.00%) VPN
4 10 (40.00%) Wireless
5 9 (36.00%) Network Security
6 8 (32.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 7 (28.00%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (28.00%) EIGRP
7 7 (28.00%) LAN
7 7 (28.00%) SD-WAN
8 6 (24.00%) IPsec
8 6 (24.00%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (16.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (16.00%) DNS
9 4 (16.00%) DWDM
9 4 (16.00%) MPLS
10 3 (12.00%) DHCP
10 3 (12.00%) HSRP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Banking
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) NHS
3 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.00%) FMCG
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Migration
2 5 (20.00%) Network Design
3 4 (16.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (12.00%) Network Management
4 3 (12.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (8.00%) Capacity Management
5 2 (8.00%) Change Management
5 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.00%) ITIL
5 2 (8.00%) ITSM
5 2 (8.00%) Load Balancing
5 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.00%) Agile
6 1 (4.00%) High Availability
6 1 (4.00%) Project Management
6 1 (4.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (44.00%) CCNP
3 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (24.00%) CCIE
6 3 (12.00%) Degree
7 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (4.00%) CCDP
8 1 (4.00%) JNCIP
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) Cisco
2 9 (36.00%) Palo Alto
3 5 (20.00%) Aruba
4 4 (16.00%) Juniper
4 4 (16.00%) Meraki
5 3 (12.00%) Ekahau
5 3 (12.00%) F5
5 3 (12.00%) HP
6 2 (8.00%) Arista
6 2 (8.00%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (8.00%) Riverbed
6 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (8.00%) VMware
6 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
7 1 (4.00%) AirMagnet
7 1 (4.00%) Blue Coat
7 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.00%) Citrix
7 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow